Re: apt-get and distro aliases
Hello
John Fleming (<john@wa9als.com>) wrote:
> Reading recent threads, I plan to install Sarge and change apt sources
> to name-based, i.e. to "Sarge" rather than "testing". My
> understanding is that when Sarge becomes "stable", I will stay with
> Sarge and be able to get security updates.
Correct.
> I am now running unstable. I just tried an update using "unstable"
> and there was nothing new available. Then I changed sources.list to
> "sid" and it retrieved 3217 kB. However, when I ran upgrade, nothing
> was upgraded. Can anyone explain this behavior? Thanks - John
Apt downloaded the package list. Because you changed the source name
from unstable to sid, apt assumed this had to be done because the local
list for the "new" source was missing.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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